[7165] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: NSA back doors in encryption products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Wed May 24 14:21:38 2000
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:02:33 -0500
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, Enzo Michelangeli <enzom@bigfoot.com>
From: Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>
Cc: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, cryptography@c2.net, gnu@cygnus.com
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>Enzo Michelangeli noted some primality checking software:
>> CERTIFIX is an executable for Win95, Win98, NT (hardware Intel
>> compatible).
And Ben Laurie wrote:
>'nuff said!
Of course, this increases the size of the conspiracy at Microsoft -- if you
have anti-backdoor code, then Microsoft needs to assign people to write
backdoor code to disable the anti-backdoor code. Is that anti-anti-backdoor
code, or anti-backdoor-backdoor code?
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com
